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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jeff's profession?
(a) Jeff is not employed.
(b) Jeff is a doctor.
(c) Jeff is a professor.
(d) Jeff is a photographer.

2. In the past, what reduced the population of the women's society?
(a) Emigration.
(b) Famine.
(c) Plague.
(d) War.

3. During their escape, what signal does Terry use to let his friends know he has found a secure footing?
(a) He tosses a stone up to his friends.
(b) He hoots like an owl.
(c) He lights a match.
(d) He tugs on the rope three times.

4. How do the guards treat the men when they are recaptured?
(a) Cautiously.
(b) Like naughty children.
(c) Good naturedly.
(d) Roughly.

5. What does Vandyck smell after the men are taken into custody in Chapter 2?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Anaesthesia.
(d) Smoke.

6. How did the women's society become physically closed off from the outside world?
(a) A flood.
(b) A volcanic eruption.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A rockslide.

7. What was the name of the author's first born daughter?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Maryann.
(d) Katherine.

8. Where did the author live with her second husband for twenty-two years?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

9. How old was the author when she married for the second time?
(a) Forty years old.
(b) Forty-five years old.
(c) Thirty-six years old.
(d) Thirty-one years old.

10. What did Charles Walter Stetson do for a living?
(a) Stetson was an artist.
(b) Stetson was a writer.
(c) Stetson was a lawyer.
(d) Stetson was a professor.

11. What animal does Somel say is present on her society's land?
(a) Ferrets.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Cats.

12. What is included with the supplies that are loaded on the plane?
(a) Female clothing.
(b) Furniture.
(c) A radio.
(d) Guns.

13. What is characteristic of the village that the men see?
(a) The wild-growing plants.
(b) The clean architecture.
(c) The gravel roads.
(d) The colorful flags.

14. What do the men find at the base of a waterfall?
(a) A piece of paper.
(b) A broken canoe.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A piece of cloth.

15. After the natural disaster, which males survived?
(a) The male children.
(b) The male slaves.
(c) The elder men.
(d) The aristocrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is covering the plane when the men find it?

2. Through careful breeding, the women have created a race of cats that does not what?

3. What is the title of one of the author's works?

4. Who was Charles Walter Stetson?

5. Who does Jeff's tutor remind him of?

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